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...frozen moisture through which the sun refracts its rays, and Professor Proctor states that we may possibly be passing through a stratum of meteoric dust, or in other words pulverized meteors. The theory which has attracted most attention is that the Java earthquakes of last autumn raised such a cloud of mica dust that it ascended to a great height in the air and has been suspended there ever since. This theory is supported by Prof. Shaler. These and many other explanations have been advanced, but whatever the cause of this phenomenon, we all can admire its beauty...
...generous courtesy of the Willimantic Company. The Yale News devoted a page of its issue to a glowing description of the trip and all seemed lovely. Yale was henceforth to be the bulwark of protection and Prof. Sumner had lost his profession. But by and by a cloud arose on the horizon. The protectionists had been too fast in drawing their conclusions. It seems that there is one man left at Yale besides Prof. Sumner who remains unconvinced, and he has the bad taste to write a long letter to the New York Evening Post saying so. This graceless young...
...cloud and clash of thunder...
...recent four-column article would suffer severe abridgment. That article is overflowing with poetic sentiments; the rich metaphors of Tom Moore are nowhere in comparison with this brilliant effusion of verbal pyrotechnics. Think, for instance, of a "top gallery, separated from the world below by a light cloud of blue muslin, from whence floated the music of Wheeler and Wilson's" - sewing machine, we read it first, but it turned out to be a band, - presumably a full brass band. The "elite" and "chaperones," we are told, were all present, and, almost in the same breath, are mentioned the hackmen...
...reception was tendered Red Cloud, the Sioux chief, by Prof. Porter and other members of the Yale faculty...